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In Rome, opened Hemp Fair

27.02.2016

Cheese with hemp, beer, pasta, various creams, hemp oil, medicines, paper and even construction materials - in the pavilion exhibit their products about 50 producers from Spain, Holland, France, Slovenia and Canada. Hemp Fair opened in Rome for three days gathered 20 thousand. Visitors.

The huge hall is dedicated to the plant, which is now referred to as "the devil." But in Italy, and not just once, it is an indispensable resource. Pasta from hemp flour, beer, cheese, cosmetics and clothing. Participants of the fair brought a huge variety of products derived from this plant.

This technology has been forgotten in Italy - Domenico Bernardini shows how his great-grandparents of hemp stalks made fiber. Wearing a shirt from this cloth can be for years, so it was solid. Adaptations are very old, but new and has not been invented. The ban on the cultivation of the plants ended hemp weaving. A small family museum - all that remained of the great tradition.

Domenico Bernardini, founder of the museum:

- Italy for centuries has been the second largest producer of cannabis after the Soviet Union. And we did here best quality fiber. English navy dressed in clothes from the Italian hemp. And in the old sailing ship of Italy "Amerigo Vespucci" is always used and only used hemp ropes, the strongest.

With hemp Italians in villages linked all his life. Because she did the flour and baking bread. Try this and you can at the fair. Rare manufacturers find the courage to return to tradition. So strong myth of the "devil's seed" rooted in people's minds.

Silvio Saraceni, the organizer of the fair:

- Cannabis smoke which belongs to the same family, and that is suitable for manufacturing food products of hemp, for example, used to manufacture fabrics. Therefore, the plant is completely banned and demonized over time. But now manufacturers are returning to this tradition, this natural product.

Cheese with hemp, beer, pasta, various creams, hemp oil, medicines, paper and even construction materials - in the pavilion exhibit their products about 50 producers from Spain, Holland, France, Slovenia and Canada. The program also includes courses on the cultivation of hemp.